{"id":396799,"date":"2026-07-13T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396799\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:04:10","slug":"california-names-new-state-chief-digital-products-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396799\/","title":{"rendered":"California names new state chief digital products officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chaeny Emanavin, who\u2019s spent almost two years as California\u2019s deputy state chief technology officer, announced in a LinkedIn post on Friday that he\u2019ll move to the department\u2019s Office of Digital Services to serve as its chief digital products officer \u2014 \u201cNew role, expanded mission, same passion. How can I help government serve residents best?\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

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Emanavin said his role as head of the Office of Technology Services will be assumed, in an acting capacity, by Shera Mui, who\u2019s spent 26 years with the state\u2019s technology department, starting as a programmer in 2000, and has most recently served as a deputy director at the California Department of Technology. As chief digital products officer, Emanavin said he\u2019s \u201creturning to my product management roots in more user facing projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before nearly two years as California\u2019s deputy CTO, Emanavin spent nearly two years as a senior adviser at the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at The Johns Hopkins University, a role where he helped cities \u201cblend human-centered design and product management with passionate government services,\u201d according to his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n

He spent four years as the California Health and Human Services Agency\u2019s innovation director and nine months as a product director at the California Department of Technology. He also spent a year, from 2016 to 2017, during Barack Obama\u2019s final year in office, as a product director at the U.S. Digital Service, the fast-moving digital services arm of the president\u2019s office (that was recently rebranded as the DOGE Service).<\/p>\n

Emanavin wrote in his post<\/a> that he hopes in his new role to \u201chelp erode silos and support these experts.\u201d He said he plans to continue supporting Poppy<\/a>, an AI-powered digital assistant designed for use only by state government employees, the state\u2019s Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, or DROP<\/a>, which allows Californians to request that registered data brokers delete their personal information, and the state\u2019s digital identification and identity gateway project.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Colin<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWritten by Colin Wood
\n\t\t\tColin Wood is StateScoop’s editor in chief. Contact him at colin.wood@statescoop.com or cwood.64 on Signal.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chaeny Emanavin, who\u2019s spent almost two years as California\u2019s deputy state chief technology officer, announced in a LinkedIn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,159453,95177,47324,1286,17963],"class_list":["post-396799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-chaeny-emanavin","tag-digital-services","tag-government-technology","tag-jobs","tag-technology-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}